PURPOSE – The purpose of this paper is to trace and analyse the relationship between information and
democracy in the old and in the new South Africa. The authors interrogate the applicability to the situation of
the ...

This article explores the ways in which the term 'worldview' is used in five distinct contexts that shape the study of religion and also of Christian theology, namely neo-Calvinism, the sociology of knowledge, discourse ...

This article presents a polemical argument for a politics of digitisation that aims to politicise the archival disciplines while making sense of the conjuncture in which digitisation initiatives are mooted in Southern ...

Witz, Leslie(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2016)

The installation artwork Red by Simon Gush (with his collaborators James Cairns and Mokotjo Mohulo) evokes two senses of representation. One is of symbolism, meaning, visual strategies, juxtapositions, silences and so on. ...

Social scientists who have written about the dynamics of festival rituals have analysed such practices variously as celebrations of commonality, as the enhancement of social cohesion, or as expressions of nostalgia. Festivals ...

This paper is a response to Mavoungou (2013a) who has pleaded for the production of a dictionary of Gabonese French as variant B of the French language. The paper intends to comprehend the concept of "Gabonese French". It ...

This contribution engages with Klaus Nürnberger’s eschatology as expressed in his Invitation
to Systematic Theology. It suggests that his notion of Christian hope has to be understood in
terms of the triad of core concepts ...

Feedback plays an integral role in students’ learning and development, as it is often the only personal communication that students have with tutors or lecturers about their own work. Yet, in spite of its integral role in ...

The need for an adequate theology of creation is typically taken for granted given the familiarity of the theme in terms of the Christian confession. However, at times there has been a dangerous neglect of creation theology ...

The article discusses Somali literature, with particular focus given to the influence of Somali oral poetry and folk tales on modern novels. The difference between the concepts of orature and oral literature is examined, ...

In this article I argue that what enabled affiliation to the larger political project
against apartheid was precisely the production of a subject that was always,
and necessarily, threaded through a structure of racial ...

Ancient scribal culture had two faces. After arduous and largely impractical training, scribes were admitted to an elite circle and became custodians of a cultural tradition. But scribal teachers were also credited with ...

Mixing historical commentary, reportage, biography and personal stories, South
African writer Jonny Steinberg takes up the tale of a fractured African nation and its
diaspora in Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New ...

The legacy of apartheid and continued social and economic change have meant that many
South African men and women have grown up in families from which biological fathers
are missing. In both popular and professional ...

This contribution is aimed at some provocation by questioning the basic assumptions of current development discourse (also in the context of religion and theology). It asks for conceptual clarification and differentiation ...

Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity hascontinued to permeate many aspects of private and public life post-apartheid. For young people growing up in the ‘new’ South Africa, the ...

In 1864, Wilhelm Bleek published a collection of Khoi narratives titled Reynard the Fox in South
Africa, or Hottentot Fables and Tales. This article critically examines this foundational event in
South African literary ...

This essay suggests that Douglas Livingstone's long poem 'A Littoral Zone'
(1991), an explicit conversation between his work as an environmental
scientist and his work as a poet, makes for a poetic statement that is, ...

The Anglican Church in Southern Africa (ACSA) is celebrating the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in 2017. The quotation
above is a statement made by the South African Council of ...